Models and theories of real world processes that are constructed from the word roots of their Arabic names based on muhkam sound symbolism.
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Saturday, December 12, 2009

Holistic Psychology

In conjunction with Holistic Theology and other holistic sciences, the following Holistic Theory of Emotions can serve as a foundation for a Holistic Psychology. The tables referenced below can be found in How It is Done.

1. Abstract universals and their realizations. The 28 consonants of Arabic are signs that refer to the 28 universals of Table 1. These are abstract processes with abstract polarities. The effect of their interpretation on the mind is meaning or semantics. For the purposes of this theory, abstract universals refer to real objects in:

a) the world of emotions

b) the environment in which emotions arise

c) the world of mental processes

Common realizations of abstract polarities and processes are listed in Tables 4 and 5, respectively. These realizations are adapted to each world, thus creating discipline-specific realizations. The realizations discussed below can be extended by adapting more realizations from the tables or by identifying other realizations of the abstract universals.

2. Triggering of emotions. Based on assessment of input (what is observed or experienced, including the environment), a decision is made by the mind, the brain or another decision maker whether or not to trigger emotion, what type of emotion to trigger and which polarity of emotion.

Assessment of input includes determining its process type and polarity. Examples include:

4. Elementaryemotions. Elementary emotions are attention, emotional activity and emotional force. They are emotional realizationsof the three elementary processes—assignment, manifestation and containment. An elementary emotion always is paired with an emotional polarity.

Attention (assignment). Attention is low-intensity emotion. Attention also can be used to control the triggering of emotion. Below are different polarities of attention demonstrated by theories about specific emotions from word roots.

Emotional activity (manifestation).Emotional activity has medium-intensity. An emotional state or attitude simply is ongoing emotional activity. Manifestation also is realized as emotional appearance or display of emotion.

“Sorrow” is a decision by the mind to trigger negative emotional activity after input assessment.

“Fear” is a decision by the mind to trigger excitatory emotional activity while observing a manifestation of destructive force.

“Sadness” is a decision by the mind to trigger a negative emotional force after assessing a personal experience.

“Prejudice” is a final decision by the mind to trigger a negative emotional force after examining an experience with another person.

“Justified hate” is the use of destructive emotional force (aggressive feelings and thoughts) to defend oneself or others against a violation based on legal assessment. “Justified anger” is the escalation of justified hate, i.e., from feelings and thoughts to words and actions.

“Jealousy” is attention-controlled emotional restraining activity triggered in response to emotional force from a third party.

5. Compound emotions. Compound emotions are realizations of combinations of the elementary processes. They simply may be combinations of elementary emotions, but also may result in a new emotional effect. A compound emotion always is paired with an emotional polarity. Below, each compound emotion is followed by examples of emotional effects.

“Systemic fear” is a decision by the mind to trigger systemic excitatory emotion upon observing a manifestation of destructive force.

“Tenderness” is attention-controlled application of positive emotional energy in response to continued emotional weakness.

“Envy” is attention-controlled emotional force used to respond to one's comparing emotional attitude (the input) with inhibitory (rejecting) systemic emotion.

6. Emotional feedback loop. Emotional triggering mechanism in which triggered emotion is reused as input for the same triggering function. The effect is to maintain, regulate, attenuate or amplify emotion.

“Grudge” is a feedback loop with attention-based excitatory emotional activity that is used to maintain or amplify response to destructive or excessive emotional force.

“Love” (version 2) is a feedback loop with attention-controlled emotional engagement activity used to maintain or amplify positive systemic emotion.

“Joy” is repeated or feedback-loop-amplified triggering of positive attention-based emotional activity in processing of sensory input.

7. Repeated emotion. Repeated emotion also manifests itself as continued or intense emotion.

“Love” (version 1) is when attention with engagement is used to trigger continued emotional interaction.

8. Emotional entanglement or emotional control bond. Ascontroller of emotions, the mind may suffer imperfections such as loose control, deficiencies, weaknesses or needs. This may lead to an entanglement or bond with a destructive or constructive emotional force (e.g., internal or external powerful persons or phenomena) or an excessive emotional force (e.g., insatiable appetite). This is called emotional entanglement or emotional control bond. Manifestations may include negative forms (entanglements) such as phobias, fanaticism, obsession and addiction, and positive forms (bonds) such as love, loyalty and dedication.

“Obsessive hate” or “phobia” is emotional entanglement with a destructive or excessive force. “Uncontrolled angeroraggression” is the effect of escalation of obsessive hate or phobia, i.e., escalation of emotional entanglement with a destructive or excessive force.

9. Emotional instability, conflict or deadlock. One emotion is triggered and then reprocessed by triggering an emotion with opposite polarity. The attribute “engagement” is added if the opposite polarity pair is closed-others (emotional engagement) and open-others (emotional disengagement or detachment). If the polarities involved are closed-self and open-self, then the attribute “boundary” is added.

“Arrogance” is an inflation of emotional activity triggered by self-evaluation.

11. Stabilization of emotional response. Attention-based balancing (closed-others assignment) applied to emotional response (closed-self). Note that this is a different realization of the same polarity pair used in inflation of emotion.

“Patience” is stabilization of emotional response activity that is triggered by continued attack.

12. Balancing application of emotional forces. This is the balancing (closed-others) application of emotional forces that is referred to by consonant tta. Depending on the context, this may either result in stabilization or evening out.

“Despair” (version 2) is an evening-out application of emotional forces between constructive and negative emotional forces. Despair is a conflict between competing emotional forces that are not exact polarity opposites.

“Stable faith” or “stable trust” is a stabilizing application of emotional forces implemented on faith or trust. This word root is compound in that it has tta as prefix to a three-consonant root that is equivalent to the word root for faith or trust.